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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Do you know the song Wildflower by Skylark? It's been covered a few times by other artists. The background reminds me of a field of wild flowers although I chose to go ombre versus the profusion of color I usually associate with a weedy field. ;)

I made up this card for Carol for the Card Chain Challenge (CCC). I received a card from Lizzy H in Australia but haven't taken a pic yet. The card was super fab! Thanks again, Lizzy! If you haven't joined in, you should give it a go. You still have time to sign up for July. It's really fun to make and send cards to other cardmakers around the world. PLUS, you are entered in a prize drawing.

Thursday, June 18, 2015

I was and am
really smitten with the Card Concept inspiration picture. I replicated
the color by dotting 4 (5?) different alcohol inks (love these!) on the edge of an
alcohol ink applicator and swiping it repeatedly across a piece of
glossy cardstock. It turned out so amazing. You'll definitely see that
on my cards in the future. With this card I'd plop it in the clean and layered category; there's a graphic quality too.

Monday, June 8, 2015

I really liked this week's CAS(E) This Sketch! and finished the card in time. I'll wait while you pick yourself up from the floor.

I haven't used this stamp set much but I love it. It's just a bit edgy and the stylized flowers made me feel like I could color them any which way. I also used a Happy Birthday sentiment from a set I've never used. NBUS whittled down by one! Oh, but wait, this was also the first time I used the MISTI to restamp something to make it darker. Nice!

Friday, June 5, 2015

I could not resist this cute stamp for the Coffee Lover's Blog Hop. I am not a coffee drinker but I have considered it a lot--lord help you if you talk to me too soon in the morning! I do sort of wish the bunny's slippers were bunny slippers (still so needed now during our cold Seattle mornings) but that does have a bit of a Silence of the Lambs quality to it, doesn't it?

Really simple coloring and embossing of the slipper and puffy robe bits to give them dimension. I saw the sentiment online and just typed it up in Word. Easy!

EDIT: Forgot to mention I will be offering up blog candy, not sure what, but something fun. Be sure to leave a contact email.

Monday, June 1, 2015

I hope you'll hop along and be inspired to join us for this month's House of Cards End of Term Blog Hop which runs until June 15th at noon CST. We have lots of sponsors and prizes to win along with amazing cards from my teamies. You can read all about them below my card details. Btw, we're looking for a few new team members so feel free to throw your hat in the ring. We'd love to have you join us!

For my first card I took the Stitchy Bear Shaded Flower Border VI and printed it large enough to run along the side of the card. I love that you can resize and manipulate digis to your heart's content, don't you? I colored it with my Copics using the yellow greens and deep coral pinks from the inspiration picture. I wanted to pull in the strong horizontal lines in the pic but was stumped until I noticed that the black frame of the photo on the wall had shiny stripes. Eureka! I used removable tape to mask then applied a liberal coat of Versamark and embossing powder. It was wonderful peeling the tape off (before heating!) and seeing that I had no stray powder. Check out the second pic to see the stripes a bit better. I also recreated the framed picture by mounting my sentiment on a black base. I love how modern and elegant this turned out.

For the second card, I kept it very simple for a masculine birthday card. Here I took inspiration from the horizontal shelving, pops of green, block letters and vertical lines of the stems.